Senior Oracle Engineer

**Business Unit:**Information Technology**Industry:**No Industry**Overview**Houlihan Lokey, Inc. (NYSE:HLI) is a leading global investment bank recognized for delivering independent strategic and financial advice to corporations, financial sponsors, and governments. With uniquely deep industry expertise, broad international reach, and a partnership approach rooted in trust, the firm provides innovative, integrated solutions across mergers and acquisitions, capital solutions, financial restructuring, and financial and valuation advisory. Our unmatched transaction volumes provide differentiated, data-driven perspectives that help our clients achieve their most critical goals. To learn more about Houlihan Lokey, please visit HL.com.**Scope:**As a Senior Oracle Software Engineer, you play a critical role in designing, owning, and operating Houlihan Lokey’s core financial systems across Oracle Fusion Financials and Oracle EPM. You serve as the primary design authority for GL‑centric financial processing, including payroll allocations, intercompany accounting, and management and statutory reporting.You act as a trusted partner to Finance, Accounting, and IT stakeholders, combining deep Oracle configuration expertise with hands‑on troubleshooting, project leadership, and disciplined documentation. Your work bridges transactional finance in Oracle Fusion with analytical and allocation‑driven finance in Oracle EPM, ensuring accurate data flow, audit readiness, and scalable financial insights that support the firm’s global operations.**Key Responsibilities:****Oracle Fusion Financials – Design Authority & Ownership*** Lead functional and technical ownership of Oracle Fusion Financials with primary focus on General Ledger, supporting AP, AR, FA, CM, Expenses, and related modules.* Act as the design authority for accounting configurations, chart of accounts structures, hierarchies, calendars, and governance standards.* Translate complex Finance and Accounting requirements into robust Oracle configurations that balance automation, control, scalability, and audit compliance.* Ensure all system setups meet SOX, ICFR, and internal audit requirements, including complete documentation, approvals, and traceability.* Own end-to-end configuration standards, troubleshooting approaches, and system best practices.**Oracle EPM – Payroll, Allocations & Reporting*** Own payroll-related allocations and reporting within Oracle EPM, ensuring accurate cost distribution across legal entities, cost centers, and business dimensions.* Support and document integrations from Workday Payroll to Oracle GL, including payslip and payroll cost postings.* Design, maintain, and enhance allocation models used for: + Management reporting + Statutory reporting + Internal performance and profitability analysis* Manage EPM cubes, metadata, hierarchies, dimensions, and data flows, ensuring alignment with Oracle GL structures and accounting rules.* Enforce strict reconciliation and data integrity controls between Oracle Fusion GL and EPM outputs.**Intercompany & Multi-Entity Enablement*** Configure and support intercompany rules, balancing, eliminations, and reporting structures.* Ensure intercompany activity is accurately reflected across transactional systems and EPM reporting layers.* Partner with Accounting to support complex close, consolidation, and reconciliation processes.**Expense & Management Reporting*** Support EPM-driven expense reporting and analysis, enabling Finance leadership with timely, accurate, and actionable insights.* Ensure expense data flows cleanly from source systems → GL → EPM, with proper validations and controls.**Integrations & Cross-Platform Collaboration*** Lead and support integrations between Oracle Financials and platforms such as Workday, Concur, Salesforce, ServiceNow, and other upstream/downstream systems.* Partner with technical and integration teams to ensure data consistency, monitoring, reconciliation, and error handling across interfaces.* Own documentation, testing, and validation for any system changes that push or pull data into Oracle GL or AR.**Operational Excellence & Continuous Improvement*** Troubleshoot and resolve complex functional and technical issues across Oracle Fusion and EPM environments.* Lead Oracle quarterly update readiness: + Analyze release notes + Assess business and system impact + Coordinate testing and controlled deployment* Identify and drive automation, simplification, and efficiency improvements across financial processes and reporting.**Enablement, Documentation & Leadership*** Develop and maintain comprehensive documentation, including configurations, integrations, controls, and operating procedures.* Deliver end-user training, playbooks, and knowledge transfer for Finance and Accounting teams.* Serve as a trusted advisor to Finance leadership on system capabilities, design decisions, and future roadmap.* Mentor and guide other Oracle analysts and engineers, setting standards and best practices.**AI Enablement & Intelligent Automation*** Serve as the functional and technical lead for responsible, phased AI adoption across Oracle Financials and EPM, aligned with Oracle’s product roadmap and the company’s enterprise AI strategy.* Partner with Finance, IT leadership, and Oracle Product teams to identify near term, high value AI use cases that are production ready.* Evaluate and enable Oracle native AI capabilities (e.g., Oracle AI features within Fusion, EPM and analytics platforms).* Act as a subject matter expert and advisor to Finance leadership on AI capabilities, limitations, readiness and responsible adoption within Oracle platforms.**Qualifications:****Required Qualifications*** 10+ years of experience supporting Oracle Financial systems, with hands-on ownership of Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials.* Deep functional expertise in General Ledger (GL), including accounting structures, hierarchies, journals, close processes, and reconciliations.* Proven experience supporting Oracle EPM solutions, with direct responsibility for: + Payroll-related allocations + Management and statutory reporting + Allocation model design and maintenance* Strong experience managing EPM cubes, metadata, hierarchies, dimensions, and data integrity.* Hands-on experience configuring and supporting intercompany accounting, eliminations, and reporting structures.* Demonstrated ability to design and operate financial systems in a SOX / ICFR-controlled environment.* Experience translating complex Finance and Accounting requirements into scalable Oracle configurations.* Strong understanding of end-to-end financial data flow from subledger → GL → EPM.* Experience supporting integrations with Workday, Concur, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, or similar enterprise platforms.* Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex functional and technical issues across Oracle Fusion and EPM platforms.* Experience managing Oracle quarterly updates, including impact analysis, testing, and deployment coordination.* Strong SQL and financial data analysis skills.**Preferred Skills*** Experience with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) or similar integration frameworks.* Experience supporting global, multi-entity, multi-currency financial environments.* Prior ownership of payroll allocations across multiple cost centers, legal entities, or regions.* Experience supporting external audits, internal audits, and regulatory reporting requirements.* Familiarity with Oracle APEX, OTBI, and BI Publisher.* Experience partnering with third-party system integrators or Oracle Support.* Exposure to financial automation, AI-enabled reporting, or advanced EPM analytics.**About the Team**We believe that as we grow individually, we also grow as an Information Technology team allowing us to contribute to the overall growth of Houlihan Lokey. 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